"The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like"

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"